bachelorThesis
Racism and corruption: cross-sectional case of the US
Fecha
2017Registro en:
364.1323CD M578
Autor
Mesa Osorio, Alejandro
Institución
Resumen
Using cross-section Google search data implemented by Stephens-Davidowitz (2014) to capture racial hate in every single state of the United States, we found a positive and significant relationship between racism and corruption in the three branches of government, specially the Judicial branch -- Since the termination of the Civil War, states that used to perform slavery as an economic activity started to discriminate the African-American minority and harm their fundamental rights through sentences in local courts -- Additionally, 1% increase in the estimated racial hate decreases the probability to stay in the lowest levels of perceived corruption and increases the chances up to 2% to pass to a \very Common" level of corruption